quick update, finished my first 500 fifty fifty and moved up to the 7$, roi of 20% atm

How much profit earned of those, sir? Non-turbo's?

profit is 360$ and only turbos. i know, running like usain bolt

Hi, can i join this community?
Decided to start grinding Fifty50, did grind them when they started out at stars.

Hi guys just wondering what your thoughts are on this hand... It completely tilted me as I bubbled. One of the strangest hands I've seen...

It completely baffled me. I think my iso is standard but isn't the SBs shove suicide? And wtf was the BB doing here with 44? lol

PokerStars Game #70766511841: Tournament #471155526, $28.63+$1.37 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (150/300) - 2011/11/18 23:44:52 WET [2011/11/18 18:44:52 ET]
Table '471155526 1' 10-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: frogrene (1166 in chips)
Seat 3: jjy0710 (3007 in chips)
Seat 5: BornSurvivor (2804 in chips)
Seat 6: PetrSO (1037 in chips)
Seat 9: ChuLai63 (4807 in chips)
Seat 10: Tankmaestro (2179 in chips)
frogrene: posts the ante 40
jjy0710: posts the ante 40
BornSurvivor: posts the ante 40
PetrSO: posts the ante 40
ChuLai63: posts the ante 40
Tankmaestro: posts the ante 40
PetrSO: posts small blind 150
ChuLai63: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BornSurvivor [Kh Qh]
Tankmaestro: folds
frogrene: raises 826 to 1126 and is all-in
jjy0710: folds
BornSurvivor: raises 1638 to 2764 and is all-in
PetrSO: calls 847 and is all-in
ChuLai63: calls 2464
*** FLOP *** [7s 9c Ts]
*** TURN *** [7s 9c Ts] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [7s 9c Ts 8d] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ChuLai63: shows [4h 4c] (a pair of Fours)
BornSurvivor: shows [Kh Qh] (high card King)
ChuLai63 collected 3276 from side pot-2
frogrene: shows [5h Ac] (a pair of Fives)
frogrene collected 387 from side pot-1
PetrSO: shows [Jc Ks] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
PetrSO collected 4228 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7891 Main pot 4228. Side pot-1 387. Side pot-2 3276. | Rake 0
Board [7s 9c Ts 8d 5s]
Seat 2: frogrene showed [5h Ac] and won (387) with a pair of Fives
Seat 3: jjy0710 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: BornSurvivor (button) showed [Kh Qh] and lost with high card King
Seat 6: PetrSO (small blind) showed [Jc Ks] and won (4228) with a straight, Seven to Jack
Seat 9: ChuLai63 (big blind) showed [4h 4c] and won (3276) with a pair of Fours
Seat 10: Tankmaestro folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Shove is fine. petrso is a reg who sucks at poker, chulai is a fish.

Chulai a fish? His Sharkscope says otherwise, up $2274 after 1006 games at the $30s...

It's like how can he risk $25 equity or whatever on gambling with 44 in that spot? And how does this guy have an 8% ROI after ~ 1000 games?!!?

Can easily win @ 8% over 1000 games and still be a losing player. sample size is nothing

What would be an adequate size wayne?

Kinda hard to say. Depending on ur true ROI. The higher ur ROI the less the sample size you would need. But in these games with the relatively low ROI's id say at least 10k+ games. For example Phase89 makes like 2% at the games and he has now gone like 20-25k games at breakeven, with like a 15k game stretch running like -2%

Hi guys!

Just started playin these and started from bottom.
Been playin DoNs about 2 years 1st at stars and then at OnGame, but now wanted to give a shot to fifty50

First of all is it ok to min open here or if I want to play this hand should I openshove?
I felt that everyone will fold without a decent hand here.
When the CO shoves, fold or call?

Poker Stars $1.39+$0.11 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t125/t250 Blinds + t30 - 6 players


BB: t3510 M = 6.32
UTG: t3215 M = 5.79
Hero (MP): t3380 M = 6.09
CO: t1397 M = 2.52
BTN: t2010 M = 3.62
SB: t1488 M = 2.68

Pre Flop: (t555) Hero is MP with J Q
1 fold, Hero raises to t500, CO raises to t1367 all in, 3 folds, Hero ?

I would openshove QJs here most of the time. When you minraise you are inviting the BB to come over the top with stuff like Ax, K9 etc. when he would've folded had you shoved.

As played I would call the CO since we are pretty much priced in. I would also call the SB had he shoved, but would fold to the BTN and BB.

My thoughts before minbet was pretty much the same as yours. I thought my minbet would look strong to BTN and BB (they were both regs in my read) and they would fold anything but better hands than mine (would they call Ax hands, not sure?? i think shove perhaps) and if the shorties shove, I think I have to call here and was planning to do that too. Shortie shoved with AKo and I spiked J to win the pot.

under the tournament tab i guess

I am new to these games so I guess these hands are standard. Some input on my thoughts would be nice.




Nothing extraordinary. Not good enough to 3-bet pre. On this dry flop it's okay to bet. With any overcard I pretty much fold to c-bet and check the flop.







I am unsure what to do at these blinds. Is it ok to shove like this?








Shove or fold. I fold in early position. Correct?

Poker Stars $3.30+$0.20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t250/t500 Blinds + t60 - 6 players -

SB: t5340 M = 4.81
BB: t3950 M = 3.56
UTG: t80 M = 0.07
MP: t350 M = 0.32
CO: t140 M = 0.13
Hero (BTN): t5140 M = 4.63

Pre Flop: (t1110) Hero is BTN with K Q
3 folds, Hero raises to t5080 all in, SB calls t4830, 1 fold

What range should SB be calling here?

Are those forms of breakeven streaks normal? They are played on 3$ Limits:



I'm using SNGWiz a lot, but I think there must be huge leaks in my bubble play due to this statistic:



funny thing about this is, I have still a lot of fun playing those games but I always have problems to find my leaks. Looks like I'm playing not agressive enough around 6 and 7 handed right?
What do you think? And is anyone here who is coaching micro and/or smallstakes on F50s?

What do you mass tablers use for software nowadays?
I hate all the mouse strokes required for registering as well as the Stars 'feature' of having new tables steal focus from ones requiring action leaving them to timeout in the background if you aren't aware and manually refocus it.

A couple years ago I used tableninja so I might purchase that again. I was a bit surprised to see my registration expired.

What other options are there?

I think TN is essential if you plan on playing many tables at once.

Im using TN, couple of AHK scripts for table layout and counting along with an xbox controller.

Wayne, can you please explain what the xbox controller is for/how it works/what it does? Thanks

xbox controller is used to play obv. I can set any button to match any keystroke with a program called xpadder. Then just gotta match it all up with TN. Its the tits. There are threads on here about it, just search for it.

If this nit-fold good? Obv the result says otherwise. Just bubbled 3straight fifty50s. Maybe I should loosen up?

Dont think i could bring myself to fold JJ at the $1 level

you should be shoving here instead of min raising so that the blinds don't come along for the ride. Not only that, but you have almost 3x as many chips as him. These are spots where you should be willing to take flips so that if you win the hand you will be running all over the table from thereon. WTF was SB doing cold calling with 96o anyway?